VHS-C

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VHS-C

VHS-C cassette adapter (top) and VHS-C cassette (bottom)
Media type	Magnetic cassette tape, 1⁄2-inch (13 mm)
Encoding	NTSC, PAL, SECAM
Capacity	30, 60 minutes
Read mechanism	Helical scan
Write mechanism	Helical scan
Standard	525 lines, 625 lines
Dimensions	92 × 58 × 20 mm (3+5⁄8 × 2+1⁄4 × 3⁄4 in)
Usage	Home movies
Extended from	VHS
Released	1982; 43 years ago (1982)

VHS-C is a compact version of the VHS videocassette format, introduced by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in 1982,^[1] and used primarily in consumer-grade analog recording camcorders. VHS-C uses the same magnetic tape as full-size VHS cassettes and can be played in a regular VHS VCR using an adapter.^[2] An improved version named S-VHS-C was also developed. VHS-C’s main competitor was Sony's Video8 format, but both were eventually displaced in the consumer market by the digital MiniDV format, which offered a smaller form factor.